The West African nation of Liberia was settled 200 years ago by people of color from the United States. Brenda Brewer Moore can trace her family history back on both sides to former slaves who became ...

Representative James Kolleh has come out in strong opposition to President Joseph Boakai's proposed legislation to abolish female genital mutilation (FGM), accusing what he called "western influence" ...

When Denver-based documentary director Daniel Junge and producer Henry Ansbacher first contacted newly elected Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (who, among other degrees, received a masters in ...

Ministers and senior cultural officials from Senegal, Ghana, Liberia, The Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau have been meeting in Dakar on Tuesday over strengthening support and protection for cultural and ...

Agnes, who fled Liberia during the first Liberian Civil War, seeking refuge in Sierra Leone and Guinea, worked three jobs to support her son's dream. In return, Kwity, who just wrapped up his fourth ...

ANSONIA -- Two natives of Liberia spoke about their homeland recently at John G. Prendergast School in a program to celebrate Black History Month. Resident Masnoh Wilson, dressed in traditional garb, ...

In a renewed push for long-delayed justice, the human rights community, led by the Independent National Commission on Human Rights (INCHR) and supported by civil society organizations, transitional ...

Liberian officials sanctioned last year by the United States government for their “involvement in public corruption” are running for legislative seats. Nathaniel McGill, the former minister of state ...

Global mobile remittance platform TapTapSend has officially deepened its presence in Liberia as part of efforts to strengthen diaspora remittance flows and promote fast, secure, and affordable money ...

“Please, please! I have to go. This is the only way.” This was a 12-year-old Kwity Paye to his mother Agnes, pleading to attend Bishop Hendricken, a private high school in Warwick, Rhode Island, ...